Events
Literacy boomGustav Flaubert's Madame Bovary serializedCharles Mudie lending booksLending library opens (Mudie)Public Libraries Act (Britain)First public library opens! (Manchester, England)French Industrial ExpositionGreat Exhibition (London)The Centennial Exhibition (Philadelphia)World's Fair (Chicago)Paris World FairFirst adhesive postage stampFirst stamp in the world!USA finally has postage stampsFirst picture postcardWorld's first telegraph networkElectronic telegraphs inventedElectromagnetic telegraph invented (Morse)Telegraph - Australia linked to the worldWorld is finally linked by telegraphs!Eastern Telegraph Company startedSherman Anti-Trust Act (USA)Interconnection Treaty (Prussia & Austria)Reuters foundedAssociated Press foundedTelegraph ActAlexander Bell demo his telephoneFirst commercial telephone exchangeAmerican Bell Telephone Company startedAT&T createdFirst portable camera inventedSnapshot camera inventedFirst photography studioKinetoscope inventedFirst to present projected, moving, photographic, pictures to a paying audience of more than one person.20th Century Fox foundedParamount Company foundedWarner Brothers foundedMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer foundedFirst "talkie", The Jazz SingerThe Battleship PotemkinParamount DecreeThe Horse in MotionWorld's first portable motion picture camera (rifle)Performed the first AM radio broadcastTransistor for radio inventedIndependent TV created (UK)ENIAC inventedIBM introduced first computerBreak through in size of computersIntegrated circuit inventedIntel's first microprocessorFirst consumer computersIBM PC home computer word processorApple introduced MacFirst microcomputer kitsEmpire and Communications (Innis)The Bias of Communication (Innis)Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (McLuhan)ARPANET inventedWWW went live to the world!First SM sitePeriods
Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina serialisedFyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers of Karamazov serialisedThe Crimean WarAmerican Civil WarFirst telephone lines constructedGolden age of photojournalism1-2 minute films in Vaudeville showsEnormous rise in audience attendancePirate radio in the UK
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